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You must read the Cookbook first. Its a great collection of documents. This guides supplements the cookbook with some tips that you are likely to face while compiling a package for SliTaz
Tips
- Add “slitaz-dev-pkgs” package. Its a meta package to add some of the useful *-dev packages
- Compilation Errors like
- checking for $PKG… configure: error: Couldn't find $PKG >= 1.0.0,
- configure: error: Couldn't find $FILENAME
- use: “tazpkg search-pkgname $FILENAME” to find the package with the missing file; Add this package to the BUILD_DEPENDS in the receipt.
- Read receipts of other packages for standardization. The problems you face may already have a solution in one of the receipts. Some examples receipts include:
- cups : to strip files other than .so in usr/lib, and to compress some driver files
- ndiswrapper-driver : to cook linux modules
- mplayer-svn : to create packages from svn/git
- 915resolution or busybox : to add patches
- nvidia : to create non-free packages that need linux package for modules compilation
- get-* : to create non-free packages
- *-dev : to see how to create a dev receipt
- Create lighter packages. Always remember to disable gnome dependencies or any other dependencies that are not so useful. Always do “configure -h” to see the compile options. Many packages have auto-dependency tracking, i.e., if it finds a correspondign *-dev file it will enable an option. So, if you don't disable an unwanted dependency, then when a package is cooked on SliTaz tank server, it is likely that a package won't run because of a missing dependency. The missing dependency problems that are often reported on the forum is often caused due to this problem.
- Missing .pc files : Sometimes a dev package created upstream misses .pc files so pkg-config cannot locate the corresponding dev files correctly. This can play havoc sometime as you expect upstream package to be properly distributed. firefox-dev is one such example.
- gcc4.4 patches : New stricter format of gcc4.4 breaks many packages. This is quite a common problem. You need to either create a simple patch or see if a new upgrade is available upstream. See mplayerplug-in
- Create a chroot environment